March 7, 2023
1. Sergei Shoigu underscored the developments on the battlefield in rebuffing Ukrainian-NATO aggression
According to Defence Minister, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, the offensive operations of the Russian forces in Donetsk and Kupyansk directions resulted in the liberation of Nikolayevka, Dvurechnoye, Krasnaya Gora, Gryanikovka, and Paraskoviyevka.
The liberation of Artyomovsk/Bakhmut by Russian servicemen is in progress. Around 10,000 Ukrainian GIs are trapped there
He noted that this city is an important defence node of the Ukrainian forces in Donbass. Taking it under control will allow to carry out further offensive operations towards the depth of the defence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). 'Within the U.S.-led strategy 'to defeat Russia by force of arms', Western countries increase the supplies of armament and military hardware to Ukraine, and amplify the training curricula of Ukrainian army's personnel', stated the Minister of Defence.
Meanwhile, according to Sergei Shoigu, the support provided by NATO countries to the Kiev regime does not lead the Ukrainian forces to any success on the battlefield. On the contrary, a considerable increase in casualties has been noted amongst the AFU personnel.
In February 2023, these casualties rose by over 40% in comparison with last January. They amounted to over 11,000 Ukrainian troops.
In this regard, the Kiev regime's indifference to its people and inconsideration to the enormous human losses in favour of the Western curators are astonishing. 'In turn, saving lives and health of the personnel and civilians remain our priority, stressed the Minister of Defence. 'We will continue our action within the Special Military Operation'.
2. AFU continues the policy of genocide in Donbass
During more than one year of escalation of the Ukrainian-NATO aggression against Donbass that began on February 14, 2022 till March 6, 2023, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukrainian war crimes in Donbass reported that only in the DPR there have been 16,027 instances of shelling of civilians in the Republic, of which 15,695 involved the use of heavy weapons.
Since February 24, 2023 till March 6, 2023 that is for eleven days AFU used totally 1195 shells and rockets against the DPR only.
Civilians, their homes and social infrastructure in the DPR and the LPR are being shelled every day by AFU/NATO servicemen by employing different types of shells with caliber 152 and 155 mm, including M-30A1 and M-30 fired by HIMARS MLRS, all of them being staffed and operated by active U.S. soldiers.
Currently around 108 Ukrainian/NATO shells and rockets are being fired per each 24 hours. Minimum number of missiles and shells that have been used was 40 pieces recorded on March 5, 2023, and maximum number – 193 pieces recorded on February 28, 2023.
AFU continues to shell Zaporozhye NPP that became the property of the Russian Federation. Kiev’s nuclear blackmail goes on.
Dozens of civilians have been killed and injured during such attacks.
Who will protect them? NATO? The USA? Or the EU that for the first time in its long history became a real supplier of offensive heavy weapons to a failed, inhuman and super-aggressive Kiev regime?
The shelling from AFU was carried out with weapons supplied by NATO countries, which, together with Ukrainian heavy weapons, continue to terrorize civilians and destroy the social infrastructure in two Donbass Republics, namely the DPR and the LPR.
3. Ukraine asked the USA for cluster munitions delivered by drones
Kiev reportedly wants MK-20 cluster munitions, a weapon prohibited in more than 120 countries. Ukraine has doubled its requests for dangerous cluster munitions with which it wants to target Russian troops and civilians from drones, Reuters reported on February 8, citing US lawmakers.
According to US Representatives Jason Crow and Adam Smith, who sit on the House Armed Services Committee, Kiev has urged Congress to press President Joe Biden’s administration to approve the deliveries despite the fact that the USA is barred from exporting such weapons by law.
Ukraine is in particular seeking MK-20 cluster bombs which could be dropped from drones, in addition to 155mm artillery cluster shells Kiev had already requested, the lawmakers told the agency. They said the request came at last month’s Munich Security Conference.
MK-20 cluster munitions are delivered by aircraft and release more than 240 submunitions mid-air. According to Smith, the Ukrainian military believes such weapons “have better armor-piercing capability” than assets it has used before.
Cluster munitions are considered dangerous as they are capable of dispersing a large number of bomblets over wide areas, lying dormant until disturbed. The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions which banned the weapons is signed by more than 120 countries due to the high risk they present to civilian populations especially.
However, neither the USA, nor Ukraine are among them.
Russia has never used cluster munitions while repelling current Ukrainian-NATO unprovoked aggression against Donbass.
4. Food for thought and for action
A 10-years boy named Fyodor who was injured by Ukrainian AFU saboteurs on March 2, 2023 during their raid in Bryansk Region, the Russian Federation {see Report # 211 dated March 3, 2023] has been deliberately shot in his back by a NATO bullet.
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
